Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Silverman did urge the hiring of Actress Mariette Hartley, best known for her sassy role opposite James Garner in the Polaroid commercials. She was brought in last summer to substitute for Pauley, who was getting married to Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Though no one said as much, it seemed clear that if Hartley had done well, the job might have been hers. She did not impress NBC, however-the result of sabotage from the staff, according to Hartley-and Pauley's contract was extended three years...
...state after state came in for Reagan, speculation over whether Anderson's course would result in the much-feared spoiler effect turned instead to the question of whether he would garner enough votes to qualify for federal matching funds...
...almost unnoticed, they ascended the steps of Blair House, and disappeared--never to be heard from again. The obscurity of the office prompted then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt to complain that it was "not a stepping stone to anything but oblivion," and FDR's first vice president. John Nance Garner, to say that the post was worth less than "a pitcher of warm spit...
...have ridiculed them." So it's no wonder, he says, that the Moral Majority doesn't have much of a following at Harvard, considering that the school teaches evolution and toleration. And it admits homosexuals, who might end up in the public school system. And it encourages women to garner personal strength so that they later find it difficult to "submit to a man," as he says the Bible teaches...
...years, Hondo after a year-long farewell party, Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...